Wehrmacht priests : Catholicism and the Nazi war of annihilation /

Lauren Faulkner Rossi plumbs the moral justifications of Catholic priests who served willingly and faithfully in the German army in World War II. She probes the Church's accommodations with Hitler's regime, its fierce but often futile attempts to preserve independence, and the shortcomings...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Faulkner Rossi, Lauren
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Catholic Church > Germany > History > 1933-1945.
Catholic Church > Germany > Clergy.
Église catholique > Allemagne > Histoire > 1933-1945.
Catholic Church
1900-1999
Priests > Germany.
RELIGION > Christianity > Catholic.
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
Armed Forces
Clergy
Priests
Germany > Armed Forces > History > 20th century.
Germany
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS USED IN TEXT
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 CATHOLIC BISHOPS AND CATHOLIC YOUTH IN GERMANY AFTER THE GREAT WAR
  • 2 PASTORAL CARE IN THE WEHRMACHT
  • 3 PRIESTS AND SEMINARIANS IN THE WEHRMACHT
  • 4 RELIGION, NATIONALISM, AND WHY PRIESTS WENT TO WAR
  • 5 THE GERMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE REALITY OF DEFEATED GERMANY
  • CONCLUSION
  • APPENDIX 1. German Church Provinces, Dioceses, and Bishops in the Third Reich
  • APPENDIX 2. April 1944 Overview of Catholic Priests, Members of Religious Orders, Seminarians, and Theologians in Military Service for Greater Germany (Including Austria and the Sudetenland)
  • APPENDIX 3. Chaplain Rankings and Equivalents
  • NOTES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INDEX.

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